Arlok

A Bronze Age Marvel curiosity, Arlok made their debut in the pages of What If? #26 in 1981 — that landmark anthology series where Marvel dared to color outside the lines of its own continuity. Sharing those imaginative pages with the likes of Uatu the Watcher, Uranos, and the enigmatic Elf with a Gun, Arlok inhabits a corner of the Marvel cosmos where the strange and speculative reign supreme. Few characters earn a place in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, but Arlok did — a quiet badge of legitimacy that says the House of Ideas considered them worth cataloguing for keeps. With a span stretching from 1981 to 2006, this is one of those rare deep-catalog finds that rewards the dedicated Marvel archaeologist.